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Gort, Mileidis – Journal of Literacy Research, 2012
This qualitative study examined code-switching patterns in the writing-related talk of 6 emergent Spanish-English bilingual first-grade children. Audio recordings, field notes, and writing artifacts documenting participant activities and language use in Spanish and English writing workshops were gathered over the course of 6 months and analyzed…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Writing Processes, Writing Workshops, Code Switching (Language)
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Long, Sheri Spaine – Hispania, 2009
"Los misterios de Madrid" (1992) provides a burlesque novelistic portrayal of the changing capital city and its inhabitants in the early 1990s. Spanish writer Antonio Munoz Molina creates vignettes of Madrid's people and places while showing the capital as a destination for both foreign-born immigrants and provincial Spaniards alike. In…
Descriptors: Municipalities, Novels, Immigrants, Social Integration
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Ewing, Maureen; Packman, Sheryl; Hamen, Cynthia; Thurber, Allison Clark – Applied Measurement in Education, 2010
In the last few years, the Advanced Placement (AP) Program[R] has used evidence-centered assessment design (ECD) to articulate the knowledge, skills, and abilities to be taught in the course and measured on the summative exam for four science courses, three history courses, and six world language courses; its application to calculus and English…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Equivalency Tests, Evidence, Test Construction
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Nolen, David S. – College & Research Libraries, 2010
The goal of this study is to examine the characteristics of scholarly communication, with particular emphasis on the usage of the monograph, in the field of Spanish and Latin American literature over a 30-year period. In addition, this study examines the age of materials referenced in an effort to gain insight into the shelf-life of these…
Descriptors: Latin American Literature, Spanish Literature, Use Studies, Time Perspective
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Ardanuy, Jordi; Urbano, Cristobal; Quintana, Lluis – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2009
Introduction: This paper studies the situation of research on Catalan literature between 1976 and 2003 by carrying out a bibliometric and social network analysis of PhD theses defended in Spain. It has a dual aim: to present interesting results for the discipline and to demonstrate the methodological efficacy of scientometric tools in the…
Descriptors: Network Analysis, Foreign Countries, Social Networks, Humanities
Frantzen, Diana – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2010
In this article, the author considers some of the issues addressed in the 2007 MLA report. The 2007 MLA report argues that the two-tiered literature/language configuration in post-secondary foreign language departments "has outlived its usefulness and needs to evolve," and even needs to be replaced. When proclamations are made that foreign…
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, Second Language Programs, Form Classes (Languages), Second Languages
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Lazarte, Alejandro A.; Barry, Sue – Language Learning, 2008
In Experiment 1, monolingual native Spanish speakers (NSSs) had better kernel recall and longer end-of-clause (EOC) pauses than native English speakers (NESs) when reading texts that varied in syntactic complexity as a function of the number of nonessential clauses added to the kernel text. NSS familiarity with embedded clauses in Spanish seem to…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Monolingualism, Spanish Literature, English (Second Language)
Bridges, Margaret; McElmurry, Sara – Institute of Human Development (NJ1), 2010
Bilingual education has taken center stage in Illinois with a new education mandate; many public preschools will be required to offer bilingual education to all three- and four-year-olds who do not speak English. Dual-language (DL) classrooms represent one very promising model in bilingual education that is being used to develop these new…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Native Speakers, English (Second Language), Bilingualism
Schultheis, Maria Luiza Carrano – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The usage and disappearance of the Central Ibero-Romance future subjunctive have been extensively researched through Old Spanish texts. Studies on the future subjunctive as it evolved in the farther Western Ibero-Romance languages, represented by Galician and Portuguese, have been scarce, if not incomplete. This dissertation partially fills the…
Descriptors: Semantics, Verbs, Morphemes, Medieval History
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Polio, Charlene; Zyzik, Eve – Modern Language Journal, 2009
This multiple case study examines language-focused instruction in 3 university Spanish literature classes to examine the students' and instructors' perspectives on language learning in this context. The classes were studied for a semester through observations, instructor interviews and stimulated recalls, and student questionnaires. Among the…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Questionnaires, Language Proficiency, Spanish Literature
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Wilbur, Marcia; Monk, James – Hispania, 2010
Courses in advanced placement (AP) Spanish language and AP Spanish literature are intended to provide students with college-level instruction comparable to a fifth- or sixth-semester conversation and composition experience and to a one-semester introduction to literature experience, respectively. In spite of clearly articulated college…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Advanced Placement, Advanced Placement Programs, College Credits
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Zyzik, Eve; Polio, Charlene – Modern Language Journal, 2008
Incidental focus on form is one of several ways to direct language learners' attention to formal aspects of language within meaningful communicative contexts. Learners can benefit from focus on form, but the extent to which incidental focus on form, or any other type, is available to learners in advanced foreign language literature classes has not…
Descriptors: Grammar, Spanish Literature, Case Studies, Higher Education
Stavans, Ilan – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2005
The Knight of the Sorrowful Countenance is turning 400. By some accounts, the first part of Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes's masterpiece, was available in Valladolid by Christmas Eve 1604, although Madrid did not get copies until January 1605. Thus came to life the "ingenious gentleman" who, ill equipped with antiquated armor "stained with rust…
Descriptors: Novels, Spanish Literature, Fiction, Literary Devices
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Glenn, Kathleen – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1973
Discussion of Goytisolo's novel, "Duelo en el paraiso," a study of the effect of the Spanish Civil War on three generations. (RL)
Descriptors: History, Novels, Revolution, Spanish
Claraso, Noel – Yelmo, 1975
Discusses the question of whether verse should be translated into verse or prose. Prose is preferred since it is more flexible and can therefore remain more faithful to the original meaning. (Text is in Spanish.) (TL)
Descriptors: Language Arts, Poetry, Prose, Spanish
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